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Honor, Samsung, OnePlus rated top engaging brands in India, Google bags highest video views

Here are the top trending brands on Twitter in India this year and the lists are dominated by mobile phone companies.

Dec 19, 2018

Modi govt wants this incredibly sensible feature in WhatsApp

The ministry of electronics and IT (MeitY) has requested WhatsApp to introduce a feature that requires user's consent before being added to groups - a move to curb fake news on the platform.

Dec 10, 2018

Facebook temporarily removes the post on 'black people problem'

A post by Mark Luckie, former strategic partner manager for global influencers at Facebook, accused the company of "failing its black employees and black users".

Dec 5, 2018

7-nation panel to grill Facebook over data scandals, failure to tackle political interference

Facebook is again set to face an international committee consisting of 22 members from seven countries.

Nov 24, 2018

Apple, Share Your Gifts, ad, YouTube, Thanksgiving day

Thanksgiving festive weekend special: This Apple Holiday ad will leave you teary-eyed and motivated

Apple's Holiday ad- 'Share Your Gifts' encourages talented people to come out of their shell and spread joy this Thanksgiving festival weekend.

Nov 23, 2018

The Snappening is turning out to be a major child pornography scandal (representational image).

The dark, disturbing side of fun apps TikTok, Kwai, Clip – Hunting ground for child porn?

Paedophiles follow young girls' videos on social video apps and comment nasty things about their bodies and ask to show more skin.

Nov 23, 2018

Sending NSFW videos on WhatsApp could embarrass recipients with upcoming feature

WhatsApp is on the verge of rolling out a new convenience feature, but is it really convenient? Let's find out.

Nov 22, 2018

WhatsApp, India, head, Abhijit Bobby Bose,

Who is Abhijit Bose? WhatsApp's new India head to build 1st full country team outside US

Abhijit (Bobby) Bose is slated to take over as the new WhatsApp India head in early 2019.

Nov 21, 2018

Facebook recovers from global outage; Here's why it went down

Social media platforms Facebook and its subsidiary services WhatsApp and Instagram were down more than half hour across several parts of the world including the US, South America and Europe.

Nov 21, 2018

Hackers selling stolen private Facebook messages for 10 cents per account

Facebook is back in the news with another data breach incident involving thousands of accounts and private messages shared on the platform. Read more about it here.

Nov 3, 2018

Big Diwali Sale sneak peak: Flipkart to offer up to 75% discounts on smart TVs, mobiles and more

Flipkart has promised to offer up to 75% discounts on smart TVs, washing machines, refrigerators, geysers, close to 70% on laptops, flat cash discounts on popular mobile brands such as Xiaomi, Realme, Samsung, Honor among others during the Big Diwali Sale.

Oct 31, 2018

Facebook removes child nudity from its platform

Facebook cracks down heavily on child nudity by removing 8.7mn images with AI's help

Facebook uses AI and machine learning to remove child nudity images and content from its platform.

Oct 25, 2018

Facebook blamed for writers losing jobs due to inflated video-view metrics

Media organizations reportedly fired writers to hire video producers after Facebook inflated its video-view statistics.

Oct 17, 2018

Here's how to delete your Google+ account, if concerned over recent data leak

A straight forward approach to see if you're even on Google+ is to visit your Gmail inbox and tap on your profile picture in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. If it says "Google+ Profile," then it means you have a Google+ account linked to your general Google Account.

Oct 9, 2018

Facebook Lite launched for iOS but there's a catch - the app is only available in Turkey

The download size of the lite app is under 5MB. Its essential features are that it uses less battery, bandwidth, and storage space on the device, which is similar to the Android version of the app.

Oct 6, 2018

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